While the Finest Minds in the US Dribbled Basketballs

Just an afterthought, readers, to fill the gaps between the spectator sports, the Men Who Want to be King, and my own head-spinning attempts to establish clearly what’s not happening when.

APRIL 1st ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid2012 EG5is flying past Earth today about halfway between Earth and the Moon. There’s no danger of a collision. At closest approach on April 1st, the Dreamliner-sized space rock will be about 230,000 km from Earth. This morning in Brisbane, Australia, amateur astronomer Dennis Simmons photographed the incoming asteroid.

These [other two] space rocks were small enough that they would not survive a trip through Earth’s atmosphere.

If more people would watch TV election rhetoric or spend more time watching spectator sports this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. NASA and all those people looking at the sky are beginning to present a serious threat of creating something catastrophic happening.

A bunch of jockstraps chasing one another around a stadium are comparatively harmless compared to what these folks are doing. An asteroid the size of an airliner falling on, say, Washington, D.C., might injure innocent human beings who just happened to be passing through on their way somewhere else. Some degree of collateral damage seems inevitable, though maybe acceptable, overall.

In any case, that one passed a bit more than mid-way between the moon and earth. It only has to miss an inch higher than the highest obstruction to be completely harmless. Space is big and the odds are good any next ones will miss us at least an inch.

Good morning swabby. Glad you came by. I’d guess whatever the orbit was before it came within the gravitational field of earth, most likely it’s different after leaving it. Not easy to imagine an influence of that magnitude not dragging it off one way or another. But it can cross the orbit of earth a thousand times or a dozen before it coincides in proximity again. Likely the pointee heads will be figuring it all out on their big computers and saying what it’s going to do back and forth to one another for a while. Gracias, J

Thanks for keeping us informed on what is happening out there in the universe. Most people only care about their own space and have a difficult time seeing beyond their immediate needs. While we all have to survive, there is a vast universe to be explored and watched. Actually our survival may depend on someone watching it!

Welcome

I’m sharing it with you because there’s almost no likelihood you’ll believe it. This lunatic asylum I call my life has so many unexpected twists and turns I won’t even try to guess where it’s going. I’d suggest you try to find some laughs here. You won’t find wisdom. Good luck.